Top Hat Classroom is an interactive, cloud-based teaching platform which URI has an official partnership with.
Using Top Hat, instructors can pose polling questions and ask students to respond using their phones or laptops. Top Hat quickly collects and visualizes student responses, giving instructors a snapshot of student learning to inform class discussions and deliver engaging experiences for students in online, blended and face-to-face courses..
Executive Lead
Michelle Rogers-Estable
Technical Lead
Michelle Rogers-Estable
rogersmd@uri.edu
Support Team
ITS Teaching and Learning
About the Service:
Features and Cost
- Ace, Top Hat’s new AI-powered assistant, is designed to help create teaching and learning experiences for both educators and students, Ace offers AI-enabled support for studying and course prep.
- Top Hat is always free for professors and offers special pricing for URI students:
—-$28 per semester
—-$43 annual
Visit URI Campus Store for details. Learn Top Hat plan features.
Access
Access Top Hat Directly
Navigate to cloud-based Top Hat at tophat.com, and select Login (as a Professor or Student) or Signup (if you don’t have an account). You’ll start by selecting your school and then enter your account details.
Log on to Top Hat
Access Top Hat in Brightspace
In Brightspace, select the course you are teaching, navigate to Content tab on the Nav bar, select Existing Activities–>External Learning Tools–>URI Top Hat Registration to access Top Hat in Brightspace.
Access to Top Hat is integrated into the University Single-Sign-on (SSO) solution via the Office 365 portal at https://web.uri.edu/its/office-365/. If you are having problems with your SSO credentials, please go to https://password.uri.edu to reset your password. This process will synchronize all of your passwords except eCampus.
Support and Training
- Student’s User Guide
- Educator’s User Guide
- Top Hat Technical Support
Contact Top Hat technical support directly, if you are having difficulty using Top Hat, or are interested in learning to use Top Hat to enhance your online teaching.
Shannon Toms Customer Success Manager (for current Top Hat users)
Email: shannon.toms@tophatmonocle.com
Cell phone: #: 647-990-0340
Schedule a meeting